Bale-tie fastener



(No Model.)

' E. A. JABLONSKY.

BALB TIB FASTBNBR.-

N0. 554,127, Patentedeb'. 41, 1896.

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l'lNiTEn STATES PATENT EErcE.

EDMUND A. .TABLON SKY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BALE-Tl E FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,127', dated February 4, 18961.

Application tiled July 10,1895. Serial No. 555,480. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Beit known that LEDMUND A. JABLoNsKY, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baleles and Means for Opening the Same, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The objects of the invention are to provide certain new and useful improvements in baleties and means for opening the same without destroying the fastening-hooks and to permit of reusing the bale-ties.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations ofthe saine, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is aperspective vienr of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional side elevation of the improvement on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the hooks.

The bale-tie A is provided with the usual band or hoop, of sheet metal or other suitable material, and provided at its ends with loops A A2, engagingthe eyes B and B respectively on the hooks O and C respectively, adapted to be hooked one upon the other, to close the bale-tie, as indicated in Fig. 2. The hooks O and C are provided at their hook ends and at their sides with laterally-projecting lugs O2 and C3 respectively, arranged one above the other and a suitable distance apart when thehooks O O are engaged, as shown in the drawings, to permit of inserting the prongs D of a lever D between the lugs C2` (l3 to move the hook O out of engagement with the hook C on swinging the lever upward on the lug C2 as the fulcrum.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the hook ends of the hooks O C are bent approximately at right angles to the main or body part of the hooks,so that the said ends engage each other at their outer and inner faces respectively when the tie is closed. The lugs C2 and O3 stand at the beginning of the hook ends, so that when the latter are closed and the tie locked then the said lugs are one above the other and the necessary distance apart to insert the lever D and lift the hook ends out of engagement.

By the arrangement described the bale-tie can be conveniently opened to get at the contents of the bale and Without first cutting and destroying the tie-fastener, as is now the oase in the ordinary fasteners employed.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination with a pronged lever of a bale-tie band, hooks held on the ends of the said band, each hook being provided with a body portion from which extends at right angles the hook end, the two hook ends being capable of interlocking with each other, and lugs extending transversely from the said hooks at the beginning of the hook ends to bring the said lugs one above the other and a suitable distance apart for the insertion of the prongs of the said lever to permit of lifting the contacting faces of the said hookends out of engagement with each other, substantially as shown and described.

EDMUN D A. JABLONSKY.

Vitnesses GEO. BRAND, J AMES F. RITCHIE. 

